Question

. Read the following text and put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. 10 points

Every time I visited him, he 1)...... (to sit) in an armchair almost on top of the gas fire, his white head down to his knees. A chair he hardly moved from, a chair that 2)........(become) a bed. The

bulky black and white television, coated with dust 3) ..... (to murmur) to itself. Even the

programmes looked old. The whole room was mean and dark, cluttered with the debris of life. “I 4)..... (to have) a bad heart, you know ”, he said, using a sweet-old-man’s voice.”No one to look
after me since my wife 5) ......(to pass) away. That 6) ...... (to be) her, up there.”

A large, framed, studio portrait on the sideboard. A woman in her mid – forties, taken about 1950 from the look of her hair and jacket. It seemed the photographer 7) ..... (to catch) the end of a smile. Or, maybe, I 8) ...(to think) then, maybe she couldn’t smile. I couldn’t get that look out of my head. What 9)........(to happen) to make her do that ? And all through the summer, as I 10) ....(to visit) him, the question grew in my head.

Answer 1

1.sits       2.becomes       3.murmur       4.have      5.passed     6.is       7. catched       8.though     9.happened       10.visited